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Resilient Connecticut Phase II

From Data to Resilient Adaptation Projects

Key Terms

• What is a Resilience Corridor?

• “Resilience corridor utilizes the concept of urban redevelopment corridors as a mechanism to adapt coastal urban areas at risk. The resilience corridor supports transportation, utilities, stormwater and habitats, and economic development that connect the upland areas of Connecticut where resources exist (resilience zones) down to shorefront communities.”

• What is a Zone of Shared Risk?

• “Zones of shared risk are regions that face common challenges either in existence already or caused by climate change, and therefore risks are shared among or between groups of people that may have different perspectives and priorities for coastal resilience. A Zone of Shared Risk includes the houses, land, infrastructure, hydrological, ecological, social, and institutional elements that contribute to the functioning of a place.”

Data Challenges Opportunities

Task 3 Refine the Inventory of Resiliency Planning Projects and Data, and Develop a Database Tool

Compile the Data to Set the Stage

Task 4 Develop a Regional Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Identify Regional Zones of Shared Risk

Identify the Climate Challenges

Task 5Develop Regional Resilience and Adaptation Scenarios

Identify the Opportunities

The Path to Resilience in Three Steps

Compile the Data to Set the Stage

• Refine the Inventory of Resiliency Planning Projects and Data, and Develop a Database Tool

• Whose Data?• CIRCA’s data• COG‐provided data• Town‐provided data• Utility‐provided data• CDC data• Census data• Your data• Our data

Coastal Vulnerability IndexErosion Vulnerability Natural Habitat VulnerabilitySalt‐Water IntrusionSocial VulnerabilityStructural Vulnerability

Climate Vulnerability IndexFlood‐Related Vulnerabilities Wind‐Related VulnerabilitiesHeat‐Related Vulnerabilities

Parked:Drought‐Related VulnerabilitiesWildfire‐Related Vulnerabilities

COG Input

Identify the Climate Challenges

Identify the Climate Challenges – Flood

• Develop a Regional Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Identify Regional Zones of Shared Risk1. Develop Indicators2. Map Social Vulnerabilities3. Develop Climate Vulnerability

Index from CIRCA’s Coastal Vulnerability Index

4. Identify Zones of Shared Risk

INDICATORS SOCIAL VULNERABILITIES

CLIMATE VULNERABILITY INDEX ZONES OF SHARED RISK

Identify the Climate Challenges – Wind






Identify the Climate Challenges – Heat







• Develop Regional Resilience and Adaptation Scenarios• Develop some of the Zones of Shared Risk into regional adaptation scenarios and project areas.

• These scenarios should address interdependencies and cascading climate hazards between critical systems and lifelines.

• How does a challenge become an opportunity?• Is TOD potential nearby?• Is a potential resilient corridor nearby?

• Can we adapt structures and critical infrastructure to withstand occasional flooding?

• Can we protect communities through healthy buffering ecosystems where critical services and hubs are on higher ground and where strong connections exist between the two?

• Can we identify affordable housing?• Can we promote energy, economic, and social resilience?


• Other Considerations• Planned conservation and development areas identified in local and/or regional POCDs

• Regional employment centers and economic assets as identified by COGs and the municipalities

• Transit Oriented Development areas (designated or future proposed)

• Critical infrastructure (with “critical” defined by statute [such as the state flood management statutes] or as designated in local hazard mitigation plans)

• Rail and bus service assets and infrastructure

• Egress and evacuation routes as identified by COGs and the municipalities

• Affordable housing assets as identified by COGs and the municipalities

• Areas of concern for socially vulnerable populations and environmental justice communities

• Sanitary sewer systems• Septic fields (areas of sewer avoidance or areas of known existing septic systems) and potential wastewater issues resulting from saltwater intrusion and increased tidal flooding

• Drinking water systems• Areas with private wells• Critical ecological assets identified by CT DEEP

EXAMPLES OF ZONES OF SHARED RISK AND ADAPTATION OPPORTUNITIES

Adapted

• Planning and execution complete

• Can you visualize a zone of shared risk that existed in the past?

Identified and Waiting for Action

• Some planning work has been done

• What kinds of opportunities can be identified for these zones of shared risk?

Progress Underway

• Community has made progress with opportunities to become resilient

• Can you visualize patches of risk that remain?

Meriden GreenAdapted

West Haven Beach AreaProgress Underway

Home acquisitions


Dune ridge for flood protection


Ideas for adapting buildings

Bridgeport West End

Business Name Reference NumberABC Supply Co. Inc. 1Blue Sky Bar Ice Cream 2Bridgeport Biodiesel 3Captain's Cove Seaport 4Cedar Marina Inc 6Devar Inc. 7Enviro Express Inc 8Gesswein 9Hi-Ho Petroleum 10Hines Bros International 11Markal 12Merrit Contractors Inc 13O&G Asphalt Plant 14O&G Earth Products Showcase 15O&G Stone Splitter Yard 16P.C. Richard & Son 17Park City Green 18Row America 19Safety Marking Inc 20Santa Energy Corporation 21U-Haul 22Wagner Pools 23Waters Construction Co. 24West End Lumber Co 25Wheelabrator 26

Progress Underway

Bridgeport West EndProgress Underway

New Haven Long WharfIdentified and Waiting for Action

Waterbury Freight StreetIdentified and Waiting for Action

Branchville Train StationIdentified and Waiting for Action

Linking Opportunities

Long Wharf

Meriden GreenFreight StreetBranchvilleWest End

West Haven Beach

Opportunities We Know About

Opportunities On the HorizonDanbury TOD near Still RiverResults of Greenwich Resiliency Plan

Naugatuck TOD near Naugatuck RiverA Solution for Fairfield

Wildemere Beach / Devon TODBranford TOD near Branford River


Long Wharf


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Resilience Corridors

Next Steps

• Workshop #1• January or February 2021• Review Data Inventory• Review Climate Vulnerability Assessment Progress

• Help Assign Weights to the Exposure, Sensitivity, and Capacity Variables

• Help Ground‐Truth the Climate Vulnerability Indices

• Review Zones of Shared Risk Progress

• Workshop #2• April or May 2021• Review Zones of Shared Risk• Help Identify Other Zones of Shared Risk

• Help Screen Zones of Shared Risk to Identify Resilient Adaptation Opportunities

• Brainstorm Ideas for the Adaptation Opportunities

• Tee Up Thoughts about Pilot Projects

Resilient Connecticut Phase II

OPEN DISCUSSION

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